The Rev. William H. Radcliffe, 39, R.2, Brookston, died Thursday, Jan. 18, approximately 2 a.m. in Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, after being shot Wednesday night  at an interstate rest area near Lebanon.

He was born April 17, 1951, to Thomas Raymond and Gertrude Cranse Radcliffe, in Cleveland, Ohio. He was married Nov. 30, 1974, to Karen Carlson, in Lyndhurst, Ohio, and she survives.

In 1969, he graduated from Collenwood High School, Cleveland. and received his bachelor of arts degree in telecommunications from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; June 1973. He received his master of divinity degree from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, June 1979. He also did graduate work on camping administration at George Williams College, Downers Grove, Ill.

He was ordained by the Cleveland Baptist Association (American Baptist Churches U.S.A.) Sept. 16, 1979.

He moved to Brookston from Vincennes, where he was an associate pastor from 1980-83 at the First Baptist Church there. He became pastor of Badger Grove Community Baptist Church, July 1, 1983. He resigned Jan. 6, 1991, to become director of New Directions Court Referral Center, Lafayette.

He was a member of Badger Grove Community Baptist Church. He was the former executive director of the Mental Health Association of White County. He was president of the association and previously served two partial terms as president and three terms as treasurer.

He was past president and a current board member of White Co. Weekly Religious Education In The Schools. He also was a past president of the Jubilee Resource Center, Lafayette and was a training consultant for the American Baptist Church of Indiana.

He was a member of the Ministers Council of the American Baptist Churches U.S.A., the White Co. Ministerial Association, Alumnis Council of Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and Tippecanoe Baptist Camp Advisory Board.

He has served on boards for the United Campus Christian Fellowship, Ministry House at Vincennes University, the Baptist Student Foundation at Purdue, of which he was a past president and the Children's Education Community for the American Baptist Churches of Indiana.

Survivors also include two sons, Matt at home and John, Kendallville; his mother of Jasper; and a half sister, Lynne Norris, Jasper.  His father and a sister are deceased.

The funeral was Monday at 11 a.m. in the Badger Grove Community Baptist Church, the Rev. Howard Ness officiating. Hartzler  Funeral Home, Brookston, was in charge of the service.

Memorial contributions can be made to Badger Grove Community
Baptist Church and New Directions Court Referral Center.